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What does starve mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
  2. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. (intransitive) To be very hungry.
  4. (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
  5. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment.
  6. (transitive, Britain, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
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